Crazy Bosses and Sun Tzu
Written by Stanley Bing
Narrated by Stanley Bing
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About this audiobook
Jam-packed with new anecdotes, updated references, and modernized jokes, Stanley Bing’s seminal investigation of what makes bosses crazy is now revised for a new generation.
Fans of television’s The Office and the cult film Office Space will love this classic guide to the universal workplace phenomenon of crazy bosses, now updated for a new century’s worth of insane supervisors. Bestselling author and business guru Stanley Bing’s Crazy Bosses identifies the various types of crazy bosses—the boss with the five brains, the bully, the paranoid boss, the narcissist, the “bureaucrazy,” and the disaster hunter—and offers readers concrete strategies on how to cope, and, most importantly, how not to become crazy bosses themselves.
Stanley Bing
Stanley Bing, the alter ego of Gil Schwartz (1951–2020), was the bestselling author of Crazy Bosses, What Would Machiavelli Do?, Throwing the Elephant, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, 100 Bullshit Jobs . . . And How to Get Them, The Big Bing, and The Curriculum, as well as the novels Lloyd: What Happened, You Look Nice Today, and Immortal Life. He was a top CBS communications executive whose identity was one of the worst-kept secrets in business.
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Reviews for Crazy Bosses and Sun Tzu
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chock full of anecdotes that back up his conclusions, Bing provides narratives for the five worst case bosses: bully, paranoid, narcissist, wimp, and disaster hunter - and even those who are combos. He's really a humor writer but the subject is seriously important, especially when it comes to the impact that hating these people (justifiably) can have on your own life and mental health.Quotes: "Senior management is proud of its craziness. They eat it for breakfast. They roll in it. In their great craziness, there is strength."Re: Donald Trump (2007 edition) "Figure of fun for several decades, know for outlandish and entertaining inability to implement impulse control; now perhaps the most successful individual on the planet at marketing his own pathologies to a mass audience.""Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, was concerned about the fact that the company couldn't seem to retain its top talent. So he called a meeting to discusss it - at 6 PM on the Friday before the July 4th weekend.""My bad boss was a convenient excuse for everything that was wrong in my life.""The paranoid: capable of great, intense emotion but virtually no actual feeling.""Anxiety and distrust are without question the sanest reaction to life as we know it. Rational paranoia is therefore endemic.""In America most of all, the guy who believes he's the lone redwood standing at the edge of the bold frontier can be found in every business that employs more than one person. We're all guilty of this convenient personal myth, to a certain degree.""The disaster artist: he's like a kid that, when caught eating candy, immediately shoves another huge handful into his mouth.""A procrastinator lives life on the edge and needs the drug of terror to get the job done not well, but at all."